If you write to your members of the Dutch and European parliament you may be much more effective than in the US because of the surprise factor.

Just try the tried and true American methods. The European method involves going to the local bar and bitching, maybe going to a demonstration if things get bad, or striking if they get really bad, and then voting for the same dudes at the next election.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman